Fostering a new renaissance through creativity, authenticity, spirituality, and art
Polly Castor 
I”m just back from my artist-in-residency on Long Lake in Maine, at the week long extravaganza that is Creative Arts Camp, held at the church camp Newfound and Owatona in late August.
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I hope you find something inspirational, educational, motivating, beautiful, or helpful in these paintings, photographs, memes, quotes, and links:
This is to give you some ideas to try to keep your table fresh, nutritious, delicious, interesting, and colorful!
You can see the whole show at Arts Center East, 709 Hartford Turnpike, Vernon, CT 06066, until September 10, 2021.
This was a breezy summer read, even though there were serious themes here of cancer, abuse, teen pregnancy, and adultery.
Does the fabric you identify with align with your actual life?
Our daughter did all the food planning, prep, packing, cooking and clean up. We got her the new Dutch oven for the campfire she wanted to play with. She totally spoiled me.
Our younger daughter has been wanting to climb Mount Katahdin for some time. The last mountain she climbed was two years ago on our trip to Newfoundland. She’s also done a few “14ers” in Colorado. The Mount Katahdin trail is not as far as some of those Colorado hikes, but at least a mile vertical … Read more
I painted next to this rushing stream the whole day our daughter climbed the mountain…
We were here so our daughter could climb Mount Katahdin. I’d paint the river, while she climbed the heights where this cold, clear water came from.
I was fascinated with the abstract quality of all this this texture on the tree bark, and I painted it larger than life to draw attention to what is too often overlooked or ignored.
I’m a big one for mindfulness, and this whole trip was rife with it. The textures of the moss, lichen, bark, fungi, frogs, loons, and fluttering leaves all spoke to me.
We took our time and made a day of it, enjoying the view, the reflections of the shore and sky in the water, a short hike at the end of the lake down to the next lake south (ironically called North Branch Pond), floating and paddling by turns.
Either trying out new materials or approaches, or just sketching moments to remember, here is what we painted in this gorgeous place.
